Word: fulbrighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a presumption," intoned Democratic Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "that career foreign-service officers nominated for ambassadorial posts have some qualifications. There is, however, no such presumption that noncareer nominees are qualified. The burden on noncareer people is to prove to the committee that they are qualified." Arkansas' Fulbright was talking to young (33) Ogden Rogers Reid, former publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, who has been nominated by President Eisenhower as U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Fulbright had every intention of using "Brownie" Reid to prove his argument that noncareer ambassadorial...
...Chairman Fulbright opened last week's hearings on the Reid nomination with the announcement that he had "15 or 20 minutes of questions." He then proceeded to grill Reid for 5½ hours. Asked Fulbright: "Tell the committee where you had your formal education." Reid cleared his throat, said he had been formally educated at Yale...
...from the start the open hearing was unexpectedly rough. Out of the blue, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, committee chairman, began carping about the witness' G.O.P. partisanship in old political speeches. Then Wayne Morse took over. He lashed at Mrs. Luce's statement, voiced during the 1944 presidential campaign, that Franklin Roosevelt was "the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it." Witness Luce conceded to Morse that "the language was very intemperate, and would not have been used...
...soon as the President sent Herter's name to the Senate, Fulbright was ready to deliver. Vote for confirmation: 17 to 0 in the Foreign Relations Committee, 93 to 0 on the Senate floor. Time of confirmation: 4 hours 13 minutes, in contrast to the usual seven-day minimum...
...Made final preparations to fly to the Western Big Four foreign ministers' meeting this week in Paris. As a final note he invited the ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-Democrat Fulbright, Wisconsin Republican Alex Wiley-to accompany him to next month's foreign ministers' conference with the U.S.S.R. at Geneva. Fulbright was skeptical, since he regards the foreign ministers' meeting as a working-level session, but hinted broadly that he would like to go to the summit...